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In Jiang's Plato reading, the sun outside the cave is God and initially blinds the freed prisoner.
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In Jiang's Plato reading, the sun outside the cave is God and initially blinds the freed prisoner.
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The liberated prisoner leaves the cave for the wilderness, sees the sun as God, and is first blinded by the light.
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The freed prisoner's encounter with sunlight is painful because his eyes are not trained for truth, but he slowly learns to see the beautiful world and the sun as the source of life and truth.
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"...cave into the wilderness. Okay? The wilderness. And he sees the sun. And the sun, of course, is God. And at first, he's blinded..."
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"It's the only reality that exists. And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games..."
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"...courage to stare up in the sky and he sees the sun, okay? The sun. And he is amazed by how the sun is..."
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"...question it for this fair earth I see, warmed by the sun, producing every kind, the nothing. If they all things who enclose nothing...."
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"...would bet against that, my friend. People used to say the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Now we're saying..."
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"...my sight he seemed like one who was confronted by the sun. Who are you who, against a hidden river, were able to escape..."
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"...blows. That done, do not return by this same pass. The sun, which rises now, will show you how this hillside can be climbed..."
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"You, sun, whose fires scan all works of the earth. And you, Juno, the witness, midwife to my agonies. He came greeted by nightly..."
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"sun itself you woman galore would gaze on it with relish and this too bear it in mind won't you i have no idea..."
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"...I lopped the leafy crown of the olive, clean cutting the sun bear from roots up."
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"...and tell Mardonius that the Athenians say so long as the sun shall continue in the same course as now we will never make..."
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"...And now we're suddenly in the light. Right? We see the sun. The sun, of course, is Asha. Truth. Okay? Or Ahura Masta. And..."
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